No More Lies: The Regular Season Is NOT a Playoff

From August to January, you can hear the most heinous lie in all of sportdom spouted daily:

"The College Football Regular Season is a Playoff."

Of all the idiotic and inane deceptions regurgitated by those who should (and do) know better, none is more abhorrent than this. 

The Evidence is Clear This Season—Just Ask Texas

Thankfully, this season, proof that this is a lie is plain as the burnt orange numbers on the back of the Texas Longhorn's uniforms.  

The regular season conveniently concluded with Oklahoma, Florida, Texas and Alabama as the top four teams in the BCS standings, the two former heading to the title tilt. If the regular season were truly a playoff, however, we'd have a different national championship game.

Florida and Alabama played each other on a neutral field, and Florida emerged as the better team. Clearly, in fact. 

Likewise, Oklahoma and Texas played each other on a neutral field, and Texas emerged as the winner. 

Yet, due to the despicable hijacking of this great game by the BCS Cartel, we have a different national championship game. 

Maybe Some People Just Don't Know the Definition of "Playoff"

Before you in Norman start sending me angry emails, I'm not saying Oklahoma isn't the better team. I'm simply pointing out the idiocy of the contention that somehow, the regular season is a playoff that gets us the two best teams for the national championship every year.

Clearly, it isn't. 

Not only that, if the regular season were a playoff, Utah would be ranked ahead of USC. The Might Trojan's only loss came at the hand of the Oregon State Beavers, a team Utah beat. 

If the regular season were a playoff, it would have seeding, equal quality of teams played (relatively), conference championship games in every conference and when teams played head-to-head, the winner would advanced.

That doesn't happen in this system.

There are Even More Lies

And there's another sickening subterfuge that follows the playoff lie:

"A playoff would make the regular season irrelevant."

Just like the NFL right?

And this argument has lost a ton of merit since the last two years teams have played in the National Championship game with one or two losses. 

And by the same logic, why don't the conference championship games make the regular season less important as well? Florida, after all, took a game off this year against Mississippi and still managed to get to the title game by way of the SEC championship. 

Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, "Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth."

I sure hope he's right, but either way it would be nice for these lies to cease dribbling from the lips of the pundits.